A Five Star Review Of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening

“M. Night Shyamalan’s latest movie, The Happening, is not merely bad. It is an astonishment, so idiotic in conception and inept in execution that, after seeing it, one almost wonders whether it was real or imagined. It’s the kind of movie you want to laugh about with friends, swapping favorite moments of inanity: ‘Do you remember the part when Mark Wahlberg … ?’ ‘God, yes. And what about that scene where the wind … ?’”